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I hope you reported him he's obviously never met you in real life, cos if he had he'd know what a sweetie you are, and he'd probably be in lerve with you . . .like the rest of us are. . .
How to Buy Paint Gordie 2008
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COOPER: Ah, the science of lerve -- or love -- or lerve.
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I put it down first of all to the effect of gold lame, but, on consideration, I think it was probably due to ‘lerve’.
Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937
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I don't lerve the top, but also, yes, I Couldn't Really SEE It, Thanks To Bravo.
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Part of the fun of blogging - and this is where amateur has its own original meaning and carries that connotation - is teh lerve and also not taking it all too seriously too much of the time.
Larvatus Prodeo 2008
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They join reeds together, by cords run through them, which lerve them for tables and beds.
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V'hile fiddlers, fingers, players, and thofe who lerve at bed only to amufe, and often to debauch us, wallow id wealth and luxury.
The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794
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That pur - pofe they at preicnt lerve, and the collec - tor of the tithes nukes ufe of thirty for de - pofiting his wheat.
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He ufes the inner bark taken from the cork-tree, with myrtle leaves, which lerve his purpofe tolerably well; yet are by no ipeans equal in ftrength to the bark of oak.
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* Hadgi Be&afch, a Saint, in eftirffafioii among the Turks, and the founder of the Dervifes, cttt the fleeve from a felt robe which he wore* that it might lerve as a model for the bonnet of the Janiflaries*
john commented on the word lerve
Diane Keaton: Do you love me?
Woody Allen: Love is too weak a word. I lerve you. You know, I lo-ove you. I luff you. There are two "f's." I have to invent... of course I love you.
- Annie Hall
September 2, 2007
arcadia commented on the word lerve
YESSSS! Great word from a comic genius. Allen's the man.
January 18, 2008
super-sandra commented on the word lerve
Lerve is used in Dorothy L. Sayer's 1937 novel "Busman's Honeymoon". In referring to the groom's jitters a character says she puts it all down to 'lerve'.
March 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word lerve
Ooh, do you spell this lerve? I spell it lurve!
July 16, 2008
plethora commented on the word lerve
I do believe the two are interchangeable, c_b.
July 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word lerve
*lerves*
July 16, 2008